Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton and Yale were all built on the foundation of a slave economy. In his new book, ”Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities,” Wilder looks closely at how these influential learning institutions grew up in key geographic regions based on founders’ investments in the Atlantic slave trade, and the role the wealthy founders had more broadly in American politics.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:47:13 +0000
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